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The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf (2004)

by Victor Pelevin(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0670019887 (ISBN13: 9780670019885)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: A Hu-Li is a 2000-year-old werefox from China who has lived in Russia for the past couple of centuries. Although werefoxes are as sexless as angels, they appear to be human females and make their living by prostitution. Or rather by posing as prostitutes. Once alone with a client, A Hu-Li and her kind briefly expose their tails, the one fox attribute that never goes away. The client is instantly bewitched, and while A Hu-Li reads a book he enacts whatever sexual scenario he has in mind. A Hu-Li gets the cash but more importantly the energy he releases upon orgasm.A Hu-Li has read a lot of books, and she has opinions on everything. She loses her control when a flagellation client criticizes Vladimir Nabokov, who is one of her heroes. Her avatar enacting the client’s sexua... morel fantasy bears down too hard and draws blood. He’s well-connected, and brings her to the attention of Alexander, an officer in the Federal Security Service, the post-Soviet incarnation of the KGB. Alexander, being a werewolf, recognizes A Hu-Li for what she is. Werefox and werewolf meet and lots of hot weresex ensues. But the core of Pelevin’s novel is the endless roundsof philosophical, literary, and political discussions A Hu-Li engages in. Pelevin can usually weave these seamlessly into the action, although some readers might think the novel bogs down at times. (It does.) To keep things lively there is the crucial role werewolves play in the Russian natural gas industry, a raid on a hen house, and the murder of an English lord who heads up the pro-fox hunting contingent in the House of Lords. I suspect that some of the satire of Russian society that has made Pelevin’s novel an enormous bestseller back home was lost on me. But A Hu-Lui, whose name sounds in Russian like the slang term for “Go fuck yourself,” is an engaging narrator. She is funny, erudite, and yet at times surprisingly naïve for a 2000-year-old.
review 2: Before I say anything about my thoughts on this novel, let me point this out: At one moment in the book, A Huli points out to Alexander that Nabokov's Lolita definitely doesn't show the soul of the author (Nabokov) in its primary plot of a girl and a pedophile. According to A Huli, the real intentions of the author are when the two are enjoying their time with all the money they have. And Nabokov couldn't help giving a shit about the opulent communities and their feelings about the strange plot of Lolita. He actually wrote that book because he knew that that's what the audience would really love - but he himself enjoyed his time with the money of all those who continuely discussed their own opinions on the plot. Now, the reason I mentioned this, is because to me this is an explanation of roughly everything Victor Pelevin has ever written. Since the only things the audience know about him is that he doesn't really talk to anyone publicly and travels around China enjoying himself. I doubt that a Russian buddhist who travels around China supports ideas of anything that's on the upper level of his books. Therefore, it's important to look deeper to find the real meanings, and not parodies of ideologies. The main thought of this book is this: nothing exists but love. Everything else is emptiness, vacuum that exists for itself. Or for love, so you can distinguish it from vacuum. Most people never ever perceive love during their life since most of them mistakenly call things such as instinct, social status or schizophrenia love. Which is something I personally agree with. less

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